Bois d'Ascèse
The opening reads as cold campfire ash crossed with dried tobacco leaf, less the rolled cigar than the smoke that lingers in wool the morning after.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Smoky90
- Tobacco85
- Warm Spicy60
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Tobacco
- Cinnamon
- Labdanum
- Amber
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening reads as cold campfire ash crossed with dried tobacco leaf, less the rolled cigar than the smoke that lingers in wool the morning after.
A cinnamon-labdanum heart warms the smoke without sweetening it much, leaning resinous and slightly leathery. The cinnamon is dry rather than candied, and the labdanum lends an old-monastery quality that fits the name.
Oakmoss anchors the drydown into something forested and ecclesiastical, the smoke now distant rather than acrid. The character stays austere from start to finish, more meditative than seductive, and the linearity is part of the point. Best in cool weather where the smoky-resin facets carry without becoming heavy or sour on warm skin.
Scent twins
In this family
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
